Hi, John. Hi, Merlin. Hey, how's it going? Good. I wasn't I wasn't wasn't sure what was going on there for a second. John, you rarely need to explain yourself to me. Oh, thank you. I almost said never.

But no, everyone's a wildster. I mean, I got to keep a car in the hole. Yeah, what are you doing? Are you? Oh, man, Jesus Christ, woof, woof, I a friend assigned me up or sent me an invitation to a group on Facebook that was worth that age. I mean, there's a face on Facebook. You like, you know, an acquaintance of mine faced me. It's a it's a site.

That focuses on like old school ski industry stuff. Like, oh, yeah, I used to work on the riblets back in the 70s and like the kind of like, you know, but like you might want to get into like vintage guitar gear or stuff like that, right? It's a yeah. Yeah, it's like a it's a specialist group. If you ever, you know, if you ever free-dogged, for instance. Anyway, I mean, I don't see anything weird about that.

No, it's fun. That's what Facebook is for. But so, so I so I posted a picture of myself when I was like 10 years old skiing and it was I was in a race. It was a, you know, it was a spring ski race season and halfway down the race course, you know, just hauling balls. My goggles. I didn't wear a hat because it was because it was a spring day. And my goggles just gradually started slipping down my face.

Until they were in front of my eyes. And I couldn't see. And then they fell down and right at the moment that they fell below my eyes, but hadn't yet fallen off my face.

A like a race course side photographer commemorated the like you are on Big Thunder Mountain.

And it was and this was a person that had been hired by the ski team like get a great action shot right here at this cool, you know, cool gate and and so of course, my dad bought the picture and had it framed.

And for years, I was very embarrassed by it. But then, of course, later on you, you think, oh, that's actually kind of funny and kind of great. Anyway, I posted it. Why is my phone ringing.

I posted it and and it turns out there are all these old people from my ski team. Oh, this crazy website.

Now see, that's nice. Yeah. So then all of these, all of these people that back then would have teased me mercilessly are teasing me mercilessly now.

Circle of life. Yeah, they're all in their mid fifties. And they're like, oh, you could never ski bark, bark, bark.

So that's fun, right? Isn't that fun? Mm-hmm. I think stuff like that is I think stuff like that is really nice. It's nice to, you know, I mean, like I like vintage things.

I like I like line.

That just came out of what did they say 25 years ago? Big Lebowski just came out 25 years ago. Yeah, you know, people love

anniversaries. It's kind of unseemly. I think that's I think that's wonderful. But I also am always intrigued by the changing nature of

I'm not, I don't mean to sound fake philosophical here, but like, you know, think about the photographs of your childhood and the generations before where I mean, we're not just talking about like deadwood shit.

I mean, like, you might have one photo, two photos, three photos of a person ever. And I mean, maybe more saliently back in the days when we'd all line up,

dutifully in three rows and take exactly one photo of a group. Like, that was, that was daily care. You always took a group photo.

And they were almost always bad because somebody only took one photo because photos cost money. But, you know, the, the scarcity of that kind of stuff, it was also goes for things like your book photos.

We're like, there are not that that many, not that anybody needs them, but there's not that many extant photos of me in second grade when there's some.

But like every family, I guess we went through some phases of morals. I'm just saying you've got to take what you get and not get upset.

Yes, yes, yes. I had a habit that only is only interesting or salient because of this topic that I just made up, which is that I, I don't know, I used to, I don't know, you know, kids are weird.

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